“Security Perception in Liminal Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges” is a meeting that aims to reflect on the security themes covered by POWERS throughout its course and discuss the future of security relations between EU and its neighbors in an increasingly interconnected world.

In the growing interaction between actors of different levels in international relations, the existence, relevance, and endurance of liminal spaces of security, ranging from borders to identity, technology, radicalism or health are also increasingly contested and reinvented. Although the internationalization of local conflicts and cooperation have reinforced the ties between local and external actors operating from different levels and familiarized them to the global audiences, it also significantly complicated them. Thus, today’s security issues that preoccupy the scholars and policymakers alike demand in-depth reflection and close attention to understanding the perceptions of relevant actors and their goals.

The goal of this conference is to offer a kaleidoscopic view of such complex issues and themes hitherto discussed in previous meetings for better comprehension. Parallel to the goals of POWERS network, and to address the complexity of current security issues faced by EU and its neighbors alike, the conference program is meant to be broad in its thematic framework:

Conference topics include

Classic global security issues:

• o Military threats
• o Warfare between states
• o Border security
• o Terrorism
• o Possession of nuclear weapons.

Unconventional global security issues:

• o Human Security
• o Health Security and Pandemic
• o Irregular Migration
• o Radicalism
• o Food Security
• o Environmental Security disasters
• o Finance Security
• o Energy Security
• o Cyber Security
• o Technology and cybernetics,
• o Drug Trafficking
• o Smuggling
• o Piracy.

The scientific conference was followed by the final coordinating meeting of the POWERS project restricted to the Network partners only.

The news of the final conference held by Dokuz Eylul University disseminated by Dokuz Eylul University media and national media outlets.

Dokuz Eylul University News:
https://haber.deu.edu.tr/kuresel-guvenlik-sorunlarina-deuden-bilimsel-bakis/

Haberturk media channel:
https://www.haberturk.com/izmir-haberleri/97337731-kuresel-guvenlik-sorunlari-deude-tartisildideu-rektoru-prof-dr-nukhet-hotar-dunyanin-her

Gazete Yildiz:
https://www.gazeteyildiz.com/kuresel-guvenlik-sorunlari-deude-tartisildi-218952.html